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My "favorite" Google dark pattern is suggesting "Privacy Checkup" when I'm logged out. The checkup of course requires signing in. This is so cunning — they mak
by pornel 8y ago
My "favorite" Google dark pattern is suggesting "Privacy Checkup" when I'm logged out. The checkup of course requires signing in.
This is so cunning — they make it look like they care about my privacy, while in reality they upgrade from no tracking (signed out) to at least default tracking they allow themselves in the ToS.
- mda 8y agoWhy is this a dark pattern? There could be a lot of people who sometimes sign in and sometimes stay logged out, the privacy checkup is useful for them, even you might have some settings from past you might want to see. This is not a dark pattern, HN became hysterical.